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We’ve been told that Bookmatch "feels like a Buzzfeed quiz if Don DeLillo had been a Buzzfeed employee." Correct? Take the quiz and find out.

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November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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🚨 Bookmatch is back! 🚨 From now until December 2, make a donation of any amount to n+1 and we’ll send you the Bookmatch quiz—a personality test that will generate a reading list tailored to your tastes and whims. Try the quiz here: secure.givelively.org/donate/n1-fo...
November 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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This weekend only, take 25% off a year of n+1 with the discount code TRICKORTREAT. nplusonemag.com/subscribe/
October 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Next week: a party in Greenpoint! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
October 8, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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From Issue 49: an appreciation of Fredric Jameson, who died a year ago today. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/the...
Jameson has been memorialized, rightly, as a singularly gifted and omnivorous scholar of the present. Has anyone else written with such panache and blindsiding humor about cinema (“it is what is good about [Dog Day Afternoon] that is bad about it, and what is bad about it that is on the contrary rather good in many ways”), the textures of consumer life (“marbled by the worst kind of junk-language, such as ‘life-style’ or ‘sexual preference’”), government (“the bureaucracies . . . cannot be called upon as an independent force, any more than a garage band could be installed to run a ministry of culture”), and even Trump himself (“Maoism was an attack by the leader of the Communist Party, from the outside, against his own institution . . . that’s exactly what our forty-fifth president did, and if you want to consider him a follower of Mao, that would be very interesting”)? It strains belief that a single mind could assimilate so many discordant features of our age.
September 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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In our latest issue: a letter regarding letters. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/let...
We know from our subscription numbers and website analytics that more people are reading n+1 than ever. People often say nice things about n+1 pieces on Twitter and Bluesky, or (often in much greater detail) complain about them on their Substacks. So why the steep drop in old-fashioned correspondence?
July 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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July 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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July 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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This weekend, starting (why not?) now: every book, back issue, tote bag, and copyleft-embracing baseball cap in the n+1 bookstore is on sale. shop.nplusonemag.com
July 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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n+1 Issue 50 (HARSH REALM) is out now! Here’s what’s inside:
May 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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From today’s newsletter, the editors on Winant’s many contributions to n+1:
Winant, a historian at the University of Chicago and the author of The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America—a groundbreaking work of labor and social history—has been writing for n+1 for more than half of the magazine’s lifespan. Since his first piece in 2013, Winant’s contributions have included essays on graduate student organizing and the labor movement; wide-ranging criticism of writers including Walter Johnson, Malcolm Harris, and Lauren Berlant; rigorous and ambitious responses, written in near-real time, to the pandemic, American electoral politics, and more; and, most recently, an evaluation of the many pathologies of J.D. Vance, which remains among the most illuminating analyses, published anywhere, of the man who is now the Vice President of the United States. Uniting all of Winant’s writing is a principled commitment to class struggle and a deep curiosity about the modalities along which class is lived today. Like the great Marxist writers whose literary verve and moral clarity he’s inherited—including Barbara Ehrenreich or Mike Davis, both of whom he beautifully eulogized in the pages of n+1—Winant’s writing is as attuned to the realities of political life as it is to intellectual and historical contradiction. A characteristic Winant essay will begin with a self-contained inquiry—about debates surrounding the professional-managerial class, for example, or about the shifting composition of unions—but always takes flight toward bigger, bolder, more planetary questions: how can we get organized, and how can we stay that way? How can the left defeat the forces of racism, nativism, and inequality? How, in the end, can we live and think in solidarity? We’ll be presenting Winant with the Writers’ Fellowship at this year’s N Plus Ultra on June 10. If you’d like to join us, you can find information about ticketing here.
May 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Our NEA grant was canceled.

Here’s a letter from our development director about what’s happening.
On Friday night, n+1—alongside many of our peer nonprofit arts organizations—received notice that our 2025 NEA grant has been terminated due to the Trump administration’s “shifting funding priorities.” We knew this might be coming, but receiving the official notice was still jarring, as was some of the messaging itself. It’s unclear to us whether we’ll still be able to recover the money we’ve been promised this year—a $12,500 grant meant to help us pay our authors, our editors, and to have the magazine printed and distributed to our readers. We’ve requested the funds we’ve already spent, and now we’re waiting to see if the money will come through. We’re trying to stay optimistic, but with the administration’s other announcement this week that the NEA might be shut down in its entirety, it’s hard to do so. I’m writing to ask for two things—first, for short-term, immediate assistance to help us replace these funds. You can make a donation through our website, or—if you’re in New York and free on June 10—you can buy a ticket to our annual benefit, the N Plus Ultra. Second, we ask for your ongoing support amid the challenges that we, and other small magazines, are already beginning to face. You can do that by subscribing, of course, convincing your friends to subscribe (or simply sending them a gift subscription), or by buying a bit of merch from our shop. And maybe most meaningfully, you can share the n+1 pieces you’re reading and stay engaged with (and be vocal in your support of) the independent media you care about most. We’ll need all the help we can get. With gratitude, Dani Oliver Development Director, n+1
May 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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n+1 is thrilled to announce our new streaming service, n+1+, where we’ll be releasing a new original TV show every day. Sign up to start your n+1+ binge!
April 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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AWP: come say hello at booth T453!
March 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Are you at AWP? Or in Los Angeles for non-AWP reasons? Join us tonight for a party with @yalereview.bsky.social!
Join the Yale Review, Yale University Press, and n+1 magazine for AWP PARTY, Thursday, March 27, 7-10 pm, Everson Royce Bar, 1936 E 7th Street, Los Angeles, First round on us, light bites, no readings.
March 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Before the Oscars tonight, read @hamrahrama.bsky.social on this year’s nominees—and David Lynch. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
March 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Take half off digital n+1 subs through March 7!
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February 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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February 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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In today’s newsletter: a note from n+1 coeditor
@dtortorici.bsky.social about our contributor Thomas Bolt, who died last month at age 65.
Dear readers, On January 21, 2025, n+1 lost a great contributor and friend in Thomas Bolt, who died at the age of 65 after being diagnosed with glioblastoma. Tom published four short stories with n+1: the O. Henry Award–winning “Inversion of Marcia” (2017), “Insurance” (2017), “Estación Origen MADRID” (2018), and “Area of Isolation” (2023). We’ve unpaywalled them all so that more readers can enjoy the exceptional richness and warm, playful intelligence of his writing, and to honor the life of a talent cut off too soon. Tom was a poet as well as a fiction writer, and he brought a poet’s attention to his stories. He was sensitive to rhythm, and to what a choice of punctuation said about the quality of a thought. Regarding a copyediting query about a misstated quotation in “Inversion of Marcia,” he wrote, “Giving Milt the correct Marlowe quotation is fine (though my variant was intentional), since he has just told a story about Greco di Tufo that traces back no further than a 1950s potboiler novel. Milt is reliable and consistent only in his self-indulgence.” The response is classic Tom: the gameliness (fine to change); the suggestion of deeper esoteric knowledge (the 1950s potboiler novel); the investment in his characters (Milt is as real as you or me). It captures that disposition as a writer—deliberate but open, never prickly or obstinate—that made him so wonderful to work with. My favorite of Tom’s creations is Mary, the 15-year-old protagonist of “Inversion of Marcia” whose near-twin Marcia has abandoned her for the more alluring Alicia, a college-age girl her parents have brought along as a babysitter on their family trip to Italy. Mary’s observations are delivered with a teenager’s slouching exaggeration (she describes Alicia as “taking about four years to slide her leg off the bench” at breakfast), but contain some of Tom’s own perspicacity and sensitivity to history and beauty. Passing an afternoon in Naples, Mary thinks critically about whether the modelesque pose Alicia assumes in public, with her wrists on her hips and her hands open, is an affectation or inborn awkwardness. “Amazing, though, to see the palm trees near the ancient columns,” she pivots. “Pretty obvious where the whole idea for columns had come from, right down to the leafy decorations on top.” I loved working with Tom on these stories, and it’s an honor to share them again, even under these mournful circumstances. I hope you find as much resonance in them as I do. In loving memory, Dayna Tortorici
February 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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In today’s newsletter, @tavlin.bsky.social discusses his Issue 49 essay about Netflix’s assault on cinema. Read the whole interview here: mailchi.mp/nplusonemag/...
n+1: This piece has become n+1’s most-read piece of all time! Why do you think it resonated so much with people? WT: A common note that I’ve gotten from readers has been: “this article articulated something that I’ve noticed but have never been able to put words to.” Anyone who’s ever had a reading experience like this knows how energizing the feeling is, and n+1 is really good at publishing these kinds of pieces because it doesn’t have the same constraints and incentives that other magazines have. There have been countless thinkpieces and reports published about Netflix over the years, but the vast majority of them haven’t been honest about the company and what it’s done to the film industry. I don’t think another magazine would have published “Casual Viewing,” and if one had it would have stripped the things that people liked about it—including the title, which would have been replaced with something stupid like, “Netflix is the most powerful studio in the world. So why does it feel like it isn’t?” A lot of generalist magazines like publishing glitzy profiles of industry executives, where the reader goes on a hike with Bela Bajaria or learns which Barolo vintage Greg Peters likes to drink with dinner. In other words, a lot of magazines rely on access journalism, and if you call Ted Sarandos an inveterate liar, or Netflix’s business model a Ponzi scheme of attention, you’re probably going to get your access revoked even though both of those things are true. n+1 doesn’t care about access. It’s irrelevant to anything the magazine publishes. It means you can have writing and criticism that’s more honest and pulls no punches. Readers happen to like that kind of writing. More magazines should pay attention to this fact.
February 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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February 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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February 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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The Valentine’s Day Sale is here! Use the code ROMANCE to take a whopping 50% off gift subscriptions to n+1, and give your loved one(s) the gift of great reading. shop.nplusonemag.com/products/gif...
February 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Next Thursday! Celebrate Issue 49 with n+1 and our contributors. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
February 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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On Thursday, February 13, join us in our Brooklyn office for readings and a party to celebrate n+1’s Winter issue. RSVPs required! www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
January 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM